Description: No address or date but shortly after 13 Mar 1857 when Miss Anderson wrote to Florence Nightingale. Re. Mrs Keatley's Crimean service and the Sultan's gift

Object Number: LMA/H01/ST/NC/01/001/57/01

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LMA letter H1/ST/NC/01/57/1

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My dear Miss Anderson

I sent Mrs. [abbr: Mistress][unclear: Keatley] the money because I considered herx [sic] as [del: a case] undoubtedly entitled to it.

[del: You have misunderstood me if you consider that I supposed][add: I must have misexpressed myself [del: very much in [gap: illegible] for 1. to suppose [del: me]me to be [del: I was] considering that "it "could had in" me "for any "one to know that an "omission of one name "has been made which "[del: you]" ([unclear: If] "immediately "offered to make up for"

There has been no

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omission on my part [del: nor is][add:neither can] there [add:be] any "making up" on my part.

The War Office required, of course, the periods of service of every Nurse as well as her name, in order to determine the proportion to be paid her. [unclear: These] could only be given by the respective Superintendents under whom they served.

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I gave the names & periods of service of all those Nurses & Ladies who came from Koulali to me at a subsequent period. And I presume that the Koulali Super- intendents did the same for the Nurses who came to them. Mrs. [abbr: Mistress][unclear: Keatley]would not have been entitled to anything for the [del:short time] period

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that she was at Scutari, little more, I think, than 3 weeks [unclear: -][del:as those who were in the East for a[add:the] period [del:less than][add:of] three months [del:were excluded being[add:having been][unclear: fixed] by the War Department as the minimum for which they should receive the [unclear: Sultan's] gifts. I did not know & could not state the time she was at Koulali.